Lab projects Team news |

Knight Lab wins an Online Journalism Award for Congressional Primaries

by Ryan Graff

The Knight Lab won an award at the Online News Association conference in San Francisco last week!

We won in the Planned News/Event category for our work on Congressional Primaries. The project was a ton of work and literally everyone in the Lab contributed code, research, partnership development, or publicity so it was nice to get some recognition for such a collaborative effort. Thanks also to the broadcasters and publishers around the state who adopted our technology based solely on trust and goodwill.

(Check out previous entries on Congressional Primaries for a detailed description of the project.)

Overall the award was a small part of a really great weekend at the ONA12 conference. It was a weekend full of energy, new ideas, and people who are focused on creating the future of journalism—an energizing event that we’re looking forward to going back to next year.

In the meantime, we’ll look to the work of other nominees for inspiration and new ideas.

About the author

Ryan Graff

Communications and Outreach Manager, 2011-2016

Journalism, revenue, whitewater, former carny. Recently loving some quality time @KelloggSchool.

Latest Posts

  • Lab , projects |

    A Big Change That Will Probably Affect Your Storymaps

    by Joe Germuska

    A big change is coming to StoryMapJS, and it will affect many, if not most existing storymaps. When making a storymap, one way to set a style and tone for your project is to set the "map type," also known as the "basemap." When we launched StoryMapJS, it included options for a few basemaps created by Stamen Design. These included the "watercolor" style, as well as the default style for new storymaps, "Toner Lite." Stamen...

    Continue Reading

  • People |

    Introducing AmyJo Brown, Knight Lab Professional Fellow

    AmyJo Brown, a veteran journalist passionate about supporting and reshaping local political journalism and who it engages, has joined the Knight Lab as a 2022-2023 professional fellow. Her focus is on building The Public Ledger, a data tool structured from local campaign finance data that is designed to track connections and make local political relationships – and their influence – more visible. “Campaign finance data has more stories to tell – if we follow the...

    Continue Reading

  • Ideas |

    Interactive Entertainment: How UX Design Shapes Streaming Platforms

    by Max Johnson

    As streaming develops into the latest age of entertainment, how are interfaces and layouts being designed to prioritize user experience and accessibility? The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated streaming services becoming the dominant form of entertainment. There are a handful of new platforms, each with thousands of hours of content, but not much change or differentiation in the user journeys. For the most part, everywhere from Netflix to illegal streaming platforms use similar video streaming UX standards, and...

    Continue Reading

  • Lab projects |

    Innovation with collaborationExperimenting with AI and investigative journalism in the Americas.

    by Mago Torres | magiccia

    Lee este artículo en español. How might we use AI technologies to innovate newsgathering and investigative reporting techniques? This was the question we posed to a group of seven newsrooms in Latin America and the US as part of the Americas Cohort during the 2021 JournalismAI Collab Challenges. The Collab is an initiative that brings together media organizations to experiment with AI technologies and journalism. This year,  JournalismAI, a project of Polis, the journalism think-tank at...

    Continue Reading

  • Lab projects , En Español |

    Innovación con colaboraciónCuando el periodismo de investigación experimenta con inteligencia artificial.

    by Mago Torres | magiccia

    Read this article in English. ¿Cómo podemos usar la inteligencia artificial para innovar las técnicas de reporteo y de periodismo de investigación? Esta es la pregunta que convocó a un grupo de siete organizaciones periodísticas en América Latina y Estados Unidos, el grupo de las Américas del 2021 JournalismAI Collab Challenges. Esta iniciativa de colaboración reúne a medios para experimentar con inteligencia artificial y periodismo. Este año, JournalismAI, un proyecto de Polis, la think-tank de periodismo...

    Continue Reading

  • Studio | Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard

    AI, Automation, and Newsrooms: Finding Fitting Tools for Your Organization

    by Hannah Barton , Helen Bradshaw , Joshua Hoeflich , Grace Lee , Sammie Pyo

    If you’d like to use technology to make your newsroom more efficient, you’ve come to the right place. Tools exist that can help you find news, manage your work in progress, and distribute your content more effectively than ever before, and we’re here to help you find the ones that are right for you. As part of the Knight Foundation’s AI for Local News program, we worked with the Associated Press to interview dozens of......

    Continue Reading

Storytelling Tools

We build easy-to-use tools that can help you tell better stories.

Easy-to-make frame comparisons.

Easy-to-make VR stories.

Seamless inline audio.

Tell the story behind the numbers.

Maps that tell stories.

Easy-to-make, beautiful timelines.
View More